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Indic Wikisource Proofreadthon - Let's join our hands
by Jayanta Nath 30 Apr '20

30 Apr '20

Dear all, As you know, Indic Wikisource Proofreadthon will be started on 1 May 2020 and will run till 10 Maay 2020. If you are interested to participate or to know more about the contest, please visit this page.[1] This online Proofreadthon definitely enhance participation of the community and help in bringing in new editors! If you are interested in conducting online events as part of this edit-a-thon, please write to me jayanta(at) cis-india.org or left your messages at event talk pages.[4] If you are interested in reviewing and assessing proofread pages by your community members, please visit this page and add your name. [2] I would like to request to Hindi & Malayalam community, kindly add your books for proofreading at this page.[3] Let's join our hands and play our role in growing the Wikimedia movement in India! :D [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic_Wikisource_Proofreadthon [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic_Wikisource_Proofreadthon/Participants# Administrator/Reviewer [3]https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic_Wikisource_Proofreadthon/Book_list [4]https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Indic_Wikisource_Proofreadthon -- *Regards,* *Jayanta Nath*, *Wikisource Advisor, CIS-A2K*

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Netha wins 2020 RedHat Women in Open Source Award!
by Subhashish 29 Apr '20

29 Apr '20

Hope everyone is keeping safe and well in a difficult time like now. There is a good news - Netha Hussain has won the 2020 RedHat Women in Open Source Award. [1][2] Congratulations Netha - this is such a proud moment for all of us! Also, see WikiProject COVID-19, where Netha is a leader, for those who are interested to contribute on coronavirus-related articles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_COVID-19 1. https://www.redhat.com/en/about/women-in-open-source 2. https://twitter.com/Wikimedia/status/1255513602951430145 Subha

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Indic Wikisource own mailing list - the journey began
by Jayanta Nath 29 Apr '20

29 Apr '20

Dear Indic Wikisource well-wishers, Indic Wikisource's own e-mail list [1] has launched Indic-Wikisource today. Since 2015, the lots of activities are going on Indic Wikisource. So it will use for all Indic Wikisource related discussion announcements etc. Presently, we have 12 Indian languages ( Assamese, Bengali, Kannada, Gujarati, Hindi, Marathi, Malayalam, Odia, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Tamil and Telugu) Wikisource and in future more will be added. I invite everyone who is interested to join this list.[1] The necessary instructions in this regard, you can see this [2] link for details. Jayanta 1) https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/indic-wikisource 2) http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/node13.html

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Needs assessment for Indic Wikisource Movement Resource
by Jayanta Nath 28 Apr '20

28 Apr '20

Hi all, CIS-A2K <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K> is planning to invest some resources from May-June 2020 to create community movement resource (CMR) materials in English and different Indic languages for Wikisource in the form of tutorials, handbooks, infographics, videos, animations etc. The aim of this initiative is to build a pool of resource materials for Wikisource eventually, which will serve as ready-made handy references for new as well as experienced users. You are requested to fill up this form <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeTgGEXCjONue6owzPtPdMU9Erc2jgas8p…>, so that we can understand your needs on different topics of Wikisource. You are also very welcome to actively participate in the process and help us build the CMR with your different areas of expertise. Take care, Jayanta Nath Wikisource Advisor, CIS-A2K

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"Assamese Wikimedians speak" booklet
by Gitartha Bordoloi 28 Apr '20

28 Apr '20

Dear Wikimedians, Firstly I wish you all a very happy Rongali bihu/Poila baisakh/Baisakhi/Vishu in spite of the gloomy times. Today we are bringing out a pdf booklet containing the writings by Assamese Wikimedians about their experiences and expectations of Assamese Wikimedia projects. All these writings were published every now and then in our monthly newsletter Wikipatrika from 2015 to 2020. Kindly go through it and point out any deficiencies or scopes for improvement. Thank you. Commons link: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Assamese_Wikimedians_speak.pdf Regards Gitartha Bordoloi

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Wikimedia Brand
by Jayantilal Kothari 27 Apr '20

27 Apr '20

Hello, There is news about Wikimedia Foundation moving to Wikipedia Foundation ? Can someone update what's the current status and what are the views of Indians ? I am personally interested in knowing more. I don't support this Brand change but I think I do not have all knowledge. What will happen to India and what do Indians feel about this ? Thanks -- Regards, Jayantilal Sent from my iPhone

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WP:NPOV violation
by Methu Ryan 27 Apr '20

27 Apr '20

Hi, I'm not a new user, lost my older account. I was active on WP couple of years back. While reading an article I found that few articles about violate WP:NPOV (such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Chinese_Indians ). This is not a discussion about one or two articles. The aggressive adjectives and phrases should be changed. I have made a few changes to the article, please see the history. I have also posted this on the article-talk page, but, I believed that many Indian (or people who know the context) users are not active on those articles. Where can I find people who write on *Indian History* or people who monitor *WP:NPOV* and *WP:Civility?* Regards, Methu

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Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Meet
by Tito Dutta 26 Apr '20

26 Apr '20

Hello, This looks interesting to me. You may have a look. Thanks Tito Dutta Note: If I don't reply to your email in 2 days, please feel free to remind me over email or phone call. ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Amir Sarabadani <ladsgroup(a)gmail.com> Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2020 at 01:57 Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Meet To: wikitech-l <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia Mailing List < wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hey, "Wikimedia Meet" [0] (https://meet.wmcloud.org), is a project in Wikimedia CloudVPS for Wikimedians to meet virtually instead of using commercial services like Zoom which might have security and privacy implications [1][2]. Currently it's a jitsi (jitsi.org) installation. If you want to just use/test it, let me know and I create you a user and password. You can share the username and password with anyone you want to meet but please do not post it publicly. In your email you can also give me your desired user and password. **Do not reuse any password**. You can also contact any of the ticketmasters instead of me: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Meet#List_of_ticketmasters In order to make this project more robust, I'm looking for Ticketmasters too, Ticketmasters create accounts for others (It doesn't require any technical knowledge, you fill a form in web for others) If you want to help maintaining it (which would be greatly appreciated) let me know and I give you the needed access. I put the technical documentation in mediawiki.org [3]. There are several bits you can help with, like puppetizing it, scalability, observability, improving authentication, trying to see if BBB can be used as well, and so much more. You can find the tickets in the phabricator board and assign a ticket to yourself if you feel like helping out. [0] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Meet [1] https://blogs.harvard.edu/doc/2020/03/27/zoom/ [2] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/apr/02/zoom-technology-security… [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Meet Hope that would be useful for our users :) Best -- Amir (he/him) _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>

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WikiProject Covid-19 in Indic languages
by pavan santhosh 25 Apr '20

25 Apr '20

Dear Friends, I would like to start the mail with a word of love. I hope everyone of us are doing well during this difficult times. I believe that we will get through this situation and collectively world will outlive this pandemic. What we are contributing to this world become enormously important during this difficult times than any time ever before. Several volunteers around the world contributing to create, improve, and update content about the Covid-19 and pandemic which in many ways is service to the world. During 3rd week of March, I created and worked on a WikiProject to co-ordinate efforts (prioritize, list-out articles and resources, organize workflow, etc.,) to create, improve and update content about Covid-19 in Telugu Wikipedia. After that, on March 22, I started doing the same for Indian languages by creating page for WikiProject Covid-19 in Indic languages in meta. Unfortunately, due to a personal loss, I couldn't do much about it for few weeks. Later I started coordinating people and improving the Project page which finally took a shape: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiproject:Covid-19_in_Indic_languages. *What is Wikiproject Covid-19 in Indic languages? Why is this required?* *Wikiproject Covid-19 in Indian languages* is a meta-wiki project dedicated to co-ordinate efforts to coverage about topics related in Indian language Wikipedias. Although there are several efforts going on in various Indian languages, there needs a central co-ordination project to ensure more collaboration and better outcomes. Some of the things that we can do together: - Co-ordinating efforts to create, share, and localise materials and media needed to improve the articles. - Collaborating with other projects like Wikidata taskforce (ex: finding ways to integrate Wikidata and Wikipedia, so that no one needs to update figures in every Wikipedia separately), Wikigraphists from India (ex: can take help to localize several graphs, pictures, etc.,), and other projects. - Bringing several ideas and best practices across the world together and making use of it. - Ex: From my personal experience, Very long articles in English Wikipedia makes translators life difficult. There is a good effort popped up in English Wikipedia by Netha Hussain to create short form of important articles which helps translation of those articles into our languages. We can co-ordinate with them, get help from Indian English Wikipedians to create several short form articles and medium-long from articles to make translation easy. - Encouraging various language communities to run quality assessment of the articles and also equip them useful criteria to do so. As these articles have high visibility and usability, we can ensure quality by doing so. - Conduct webinars and IRCs to learn from each other (like a session from Wikidata experts to help others learn integration of Wikidata and Wikipedia in this regard), celebrate some achievements, and to share our camaraderie during these tough times. These are some of the efforts we can take up if we collaborate and coordinate, there can be many such things I couldn't imagine right now. I would like to request everyone who is interested to join here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiproject:Covid-19_in_Indic_languages. <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiproject:Covid-19_in_Indic_languages> You can either start a discussion thread about this in your language Wikipedia village pumps and let everyone know in the talk page of project or anyway, I can go ahead & inform this in English in all the Wikipedia Village pumps. With love, Pavan Santhosh.

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Hiring for the posts of Programme Associate for A2K team
by Ananth Subray 22 Apr '20

22 Apr '20

Hi, Would like to bring to your notice that CIS-A2K has job vacancies open currently for the post of "Programme Associate": 1. Graphics Design - https://cis-india.org/jobs/programme-associate-graphic-designer 2.Communications - https://cis-india.org/jobs/programme-associate-communications Looking for highly interested candidates who are ready to work with the Access to Knowledge program team which is working on programmatic activities and contributors that involves Wikimedia projects. Deadline: *20.04.2020* Please share this across your circles too. Thanks and Regards, *ANANTH SUBRAY P V* Programme Officer <https://cis-india.org/a2k/cis-a2k>Access to Knowledge program <https://cis-india.org/a2k/cis-a2k> The Centre for Internet & Society +91-9739811664

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